This post provides a roundup of all the February 2009 data quality blogs that caught our eye.

If we missed your post please add a note in the comments or drop us a line and we'll link you in or include you at the Data Quality Blogs page.

Data Quality Blog Roundup (February 2009 Edition)

Peter Thomas has written a great post about the benefits of using business intelligence to drive improvements in data quality: http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/using-bi-to-drive-improvements-in-data-quality/

Vincent McBurney comments on the lack of quality in whitepapers and webinars: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/infosphere/a-live-demo-is-worth-a-thousand-white-papers-29983?rss=1

The Data Value Talk guys of Human Inference are searching for the best web entry forms, thanks to Graham Rhind for also flying the flag for this worthy cause: http://www.datavaluetalk.com/2009/01/08/data-value-its-how-you-approach-your-customer-search-for-the-ultimate-data-entry-form/

John Schmidt on the Informatica blog has been posting an excellent series of articles on Lean integration, most of his content is perfectly valid for data quality and as we've been running our own Lean Data Quality series I think his insights really expand this topic: http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/index.php/2009/02/16/lean-integration-part-6-empower-the-team/

Joe McKendrick also on the Informatica blog talks about the power of social networks: http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/index.php/2009/02/17/social-networking-communities-and-the-rise-of-personal-outsourcing/

Frank Dravis of Baseline Consulting gives some anecdotal evidence on how data quality and data governance differ: http://baseline-consulting.typepad.com/intheindustry/2009/02/does-data-governance-equal-data-quality.html

Andrew White of Gartner talks about the role of Data Quality in MDM: http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew_white/2009/02/20/of-data-quality-and-its-role-within-mdm-and-defining-master-data-again/

Daragh O Brien of the IAIDQ provides some DQ humour: http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/02/20/finally-caught-the-most-dangerous-driver-in-ireland/

Lwanga Yonke remarks on the fact that IQ/DQ is finally becoming an emerging profession: http://idqcert.iaidq.org/2009/02/iq-dq-emerging-profession/

From Data Quality Pro...

Jim Harris has kicked off a great series of articles here on Data Quality Pro, these have been our most popular content this month:

1. Data Quality Articles Journal - Identifying Duplicate Customers (Part 1)

2. Data Quality Articles Journal - Identifying Duplicate Customers (Part 2)

3. Data Quality Articles Journal - Identifying Duplicate Customers (Part 3)

And this forum discussion by Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen of Omikron is gathering a lot of commentary, what are your views?:

Data Quality Forum (General Discussion) - Data Quality is not an IT issue (Discussion Post)

As ever, if we have missed one of your posts this month, do drop us a line so we can link you in and look out for you in the future. We also post the blogs we track in our Data Quality Blogs page.

Useful Resources

Find all content in : DQ Blog Roundup

• Data Quality Pro Blog Roundup (January 2009 Edition)
• Data Quality Blog Roundup (December '08 Edition)
• Data quality blog roundup (November '08 edition)
• Data Quality Blog Roundup (October Edition)
  
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• How to create a professional data quality blog (Part 1 - Planning)
• 20 simple tips to spice up your data quality blog

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